Develop streamlined process for applying FIT tool quality checks

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Related to #34 , #35.

Tool quality scheme draft

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Discussed at the November FIT meeting. We plan to meet in Dec for a coworking session on applying the checklist

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Coworking session yesterday was super helpful! We tried applying the docs and test portion of the checklist to the SSMSE tool. Some things we learned:

• It would be helpful for users to specify where things are on the checklist to expedite the review process; otherwise, the reviewer may miss it.
• Some elements of the checklist should be included directly on the FIT's tool page (in particular, adding basic usage directly on the page)
• Longer descriptions of metadata so the user understands for example who is an "author" would be helpful
• Some of the elements of the checklist needed rewording for clarity

Next steps:

• Put together a github issue form and make the checklist in markdown. This will allow us to simulate an actual onboarding process
• Schedule another coworking meeting where we can apply the checklist to a different tool, using the new github issue process.

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Started a repo and began putting together a github issue form and checklist in markdown for our next coworking meeting.

• Check that checklist meets comments made from last coworking session
• Add metadata needed to answer the checklist to the google issue form
• Go through the form with a real tool. Can copy over to multiple issues for each person to try their own checklist.

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Some takeaways from our January coworking session are listed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12CVGWsHG4vBYvwzmViyomfzN9CWcrCuuKH94m1364Dk/edit#heading=h.tythoymrdy8k

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We had another coworking session today (notes).

Some takeaways:

• May need a badge for tools we will never assess and let people know why it won't be assessed.
• For tools where we are in progress of assessing, putting an "assessment in progress" badge (with a link) may help let people know we are working on the tool quality standards
• We need a process for engaging developers as we start applying tool quality standards to the tools in the toolbox
• may need a different checklist for webapps; our current one did not fit well.

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Working on converting the google docs documentation to blog posts on the resources blog. @amandalbradford and @rklasky have volunteered to review the content before we merge it into main (thank you!).

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see #35 (comment)